Abstract:
A process for manufacturing urea by reacting ammonia and carbon dioxyde is described wherein the ammonium carbamate present in the synthesis effluent is decomposed under high pressure, the gas mixture resulting therefrom is at least partially condensed under a high pressure and the gas-liquid mixture produced in the condensation zone is introduced into the synthesis zone. The ammonia and carbon dioxyde still present in the synthesis solution after the high pressure decomposing of the ammonium carbamate are removed under a low pressure whereby an ammonium carbamate solution is produced, which is used as a washing agent for recovering ammonia and carbon dioxyde from an inerts containing gas mixture discharged from the synthesis zone. The wash solution thus obtained is introduced into the condensation zone, together with a quantity of urea containing solution from the synthesis zone, by means of a jet pump driven by fresh ammonia.
Abstract:
A process and apparatus for the recovery of ammonia and carbon dioxide from urea synthesis tail gas is disclosed, wherein the tail gas is intensively contacted with an aqueous media in at least one absorption zone, as is known to the art, and thereafter the gas mixture leaving such absorption zone is immediately mixed with a gas which is inert to the constituents of the tail gas. The apparatus involves a gas bubble washer and an intensive gasliquid contactor, with means for supplying inert gas overlying such contactor. By the use of the present invention the possibility of forming an explosive mixture of the gases leaving the absorption zone is eliminated, or at least minimized.
Abstract:
AN IMPROVED PROCESS FOR THE CONTINUOUS PREPARATION OF A NITROPHOSPHATE FERTILIZER WHEREIN PHOSPHATE ROCK IS DECOMPOSED IN AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION CONTAINING SUFFICIENT NITRIC ACID TO DISSOLVE THE PHOSPHATE ROCK, SULPHURIC ACID IS THEN ADDED TO THE SOLUTION IN A SUFFICIENT AMOUNT TO PRECIPITATE GYPSUM WITH THE SIMULTANEOUS REFORMATION OF NITRIC ACID, ADDITIONAL PHOSPHATE ROCK IS THEN ADDED TO THE SOLUTION AND DISSOLVED BY THE REFORMED NITRIC ACID, AMMONIUM SULPHATE IS THEN ADDED TO
THE SOLUTION TO REACT WITH THE DISSOLVED CALCIUM IONS OBTAINED IN DISSOLVING THE ADDITIONAL PHOSPHATE ROCK, THEREBY PRECIPITATING ADDITIONAL GYPSUM, THE PRECIPITATED GYPSUM IS THEN SEPARATED FROM THE SOLUTION, AND THE GYPSUM-FREE SOLUTION IS THEN NEUTRALIZED WITH AMMONIA AND EVAPORATED TO DRYNESS TO FORM A SOLID FERTILIZER COMPOSITION.